I first saw the sausage on Celine's blog a few weeks ago and made a mental note that I MUST try it soon. All I can say, is, um, WOW! I hear it's a little like the famous Seitan O' Greatness recipe that floating around the vegan blogsphere. But I've never made that, so I don't know. To me, it tasted (and felt like) a cross between Julie Hasson's sausages and a Tofurkey. In fact, I may even make this in place a Tofurkey this year for Thanksgiving ... maybe.

For breakfast, I sliced the sausage log, pan-fried it, and served it with doused in maple syrup alongside some of my Cinnamon Pecan Waffles (the recipe is going in my cookbook):

For dinner last night, I chopped up some more sausage to make the Punk-Kin Pasta from La Dolce Vegan:

This is definitely my very favorite recipe from Sarah Kramer's third book. I only allow myself to make it in the fall and winter though ... pumpkin season and never a day earlier. Basically, it's canned pumpkin, pumpkin sausage (but you can use Gimme Lean or even veggie burger), whole wheat rotini, garlic (which I used in place of onions because I was out of onions), veggie broth, salt, and pepper. Super simple, super tasty. Oh, and I topped it with shredded Teese before eating it.

Now if only I could get as excited about packing as I am about pumpkin...

Great pumpkin options! I LOVE pumpkin anything and am jumping for joy that the official season is here. Great job as always. Good luck with packing, it sucks. Take it slowly and eat lots of yummy goodies and you'll get through it. When you need a break we are all here rooting you on!

i think i'm one of the few that gets all excitedface about packing. but that's probably just because i'm ocd or something. it's just not normal, you know?! maybe you should treat youself to something fun for your new place as a reward for having to pack again. that would be fun! :D

bianca!!!! I love love love the look of that big pumpkin sausage! Amazing stuff. And that pasta??? Oh my! I never would have thought of that. I haven't had a go at S.Ks third bookie...but you just made me want to.

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I'm a 9-year vegan, 19-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.